Learn WWI’s History Through Rose’s Notebook (4/10)
Discover Rose’s Notebook. This historical series follows Rose Dubois, a young French Canadian archivist. She describes her daily life and her thoughts as World War One is unfolding.
Posts Tagged “propaganda”
Keep Your Mouth Shut: McLaren’s 1944 “Stop Snitching” Film
If remembering the past is essential to understanding the present, remembering the NFB’s past is essential and occasionally totally hilarious. Consider for example Keep Your Mouth Shut, a 1944 animated...
Montreal: NFB Propaganda films from WWII presented tonight at the CCA
Did you know the NFB started off as a producer and distributor of wartime propaganda films? If you live in Montreal, there is an event in town this evening that...
Rare NFB war films to screen at the Canadian Center for Architecture
As many of you know, the National Film Board played a central role during World War II. Created in 1939, a few months before the hostilities began, the NFB fell...
Propaganda Cinema at the NFB – The World in Action
The story behind the World in Action theatrical series of propaganda films
The Founding of the NFB
Collections Expert Marc St-Pierre talks about how, and why, the NFB came into being.
Propaganda cinema at the NFB
Canada Carries On! Just six months after its creation, the National Film Board was faced with a major challenge. With the start of the Second World War, production would...